Word: manland
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...five years after the first crop of childen, the virgin mothers feel so self-sufficient that the disposal of male offsprings is an issue. Some are for Amazonian exposure on the mountains, some for the method that elevates voices and renders docile. Instead, compassion prevailing, an isolation colony, Manland, is formed under Phaon's governance; and here, while the maidens of lie des Dames grow up in an atmosphere of chaste fertility, vestal visions (including a unicorn) and athletic womanhood, the boys become men, taming beasts, hewing forests, building halls and palaces, fortresses and boats...
Twelve male Light-Bearers have been introduced as accessories to the annual ceremony of the Temple Sleep, thitherto participated in only by Mukalinda and his brides. A rebel arises in Manland, demanding shares for him and his wild fellows in the rite. The Light-Bearers themselves are infected with revolt and there is a year when the dedicated maidens have nothing to report of their sleep in the temple save pleasant dreams. The maidens smell fraud and burn the temple, whose flames signal a lusty and welcomed invasion from Manland. In the orgy of innocent rapine and surrender that follows...
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